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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/research-confirms-a-link-between-intelligence-and-life-expectancy/
"A more surprising discovery is that there is a strong link between mortality and IQ: higher intelligence means, on average, a longer life. This relationship has been extensively documented by Ian Deary and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh using data from the Scottish Mental Surveys. In 1932, the Scottish government administered an IQ test to nearly all 11-year old children attending school on a single day. More than sixty years later, focusing on the city of Aberdeen, Deary and colleague Lawrence Whalley set out to identify who from the cohort was still alive, at age 76. The results were striking: a 15-point IQ advantage translated into a 21% greater chance of survival. For example, a person with an IQ of 115 was 21% more likely to be alive at age 76 than a person with an IQ of 100 (the average for the general population).
The link between IQ and mortality has now been replicated in upwards of 20 longitudinal studies from around the world, and has given rise to the field of cognitive epidemiology, which focuses on understanding the relationship between cognitive functioning and health. One major finding from this new field is that socioeconomic factors do not completely explain the IQ-mortality relationship. In one study, focusing on the Central Belt region of Scotland, researchers linked IQ scores for over 900 of the participants from the 1932 study to those participants’ responses on a national health survey conducted in the early 1970s. The researchers found that statistically controlling for economic class and a measure of “deprivation” reflecting unemployment, overcrowding, and other adverse living conditions accounted for only about 30% of the IQ-mortality correlation."
Well, /sci/, what do you think?
>>7738961
shocker, smarter people have better jobs, better living conditions, can afford medical care more often and take less physical risks.
Who would have thought.
>>7738979
Essentially this.
>>7738979
This, but the study isn't conclusive. On the otherhand officer workers sit on their ass all day and develop medical issues. Even with great medical care you can only live so long.
I think you guys are missing the point.
The point being is that this validates IQ tests and that people can't say stupid shit like IQ tests aren't a sign of anything
>>7739004
A 1000% increase in IQ related shi- I mean funposting when?
>>7739004
You do understand psychologists and cognitive scientists don't all agree on IQ? They still have debates whether its legitimate or not. The study is a correlation = causation.
Only 180+ IQ allowed below this line
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>>7739035
191 checking in
>>7739004
lol you're literally retarded
>smarter people have an easier time surviving than dumb people
holy shit einstein no fucking way
>>7739018
this 100%, same as global warming
>>7739297
>same as global warming
wat
>>7738961
how the hell is this surprising?
People tend to think of high IQs only when thinking of IQ. They forget all the complete retards with low IQs that do absolutly horrible ideas every day for fun and kill themselves off constantly.
Its like how people think that everyone died in the 30s in the middle ages or something because the average life expectancy not realizing that that average comes from the fact that infant mortality was stupidly high. If you actually made it to adulthood you typically lived almost as long as we do now.
tl:dr: idiots just get themselves killed.
>>7739035
>180
wew lads I've made the cut